[georgeecollins]

That's the point. There have always been lots of ways for employees to communicate, Slack is one with a permanent record owned by the licensing company.

It's funny to read people on HN bagging on Slack. My first experience of it was as a middle manager moving to Silicon Valley where everyone expected you to use it, along with JIRA. I used to like to use kanban boards and -- I know this sounds ridiculous -- waterfall charts. It's like these things become fads and then everyone decides they are terrible.